Wheel-chair or wheel-chair truck.



J. R. MOTES.

WHEEL CHAIR OR WHEEL CHAIR TRUCK.

, APPLICATION FILED MAB-.6, 1914.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

JOHN R. MOT'E S,

OF SLOCOMB, ALABAMA.

WHEEL-CHAIR OR WHEEL-CHAIR TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

Application fi1ed March 6, 1914. Serial No. 822,937.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN R. MoTEs, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident :of Slocomb, in the county of Geneva and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVheel-Chairs or VVheel-Ghair Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to novel means for converting an ordinary rocking chair into an invalids wheel chair, and the invention has relation primarily to the production of a truck or wheeled device having novel means whereby all its parts may be readily combined within and about the chair without the use of tools and readily dismembered and removed therefrom without the use of tools, and when so attached, forming a com plete and dependable rolling cliaiiyretained securely attached to truck against any accidental displacement.

A further object of this invention is to provide a foot rest associated with a chair and wheeled truck andmeans whereby the foot rest will be suspended from the chair and from the wheeled member, capable of being folded up and out of the way at pleasure, or removedall without the use of tools.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in securing the standard to the axle of the truck.

In these drawings 3 denotes the front axle adapted to be supported by wheels 4, the said frontaxle having standards 5 to which a sill 6 is connected, whereby the said sill is supported approximately parallel with and above the axle. Said axle fits into sockets out into the ends of said standards and the other ends of said standards are embedded into and near the ends of said sill.

1 passes through the beam and is riveted or otherwise secured into'the fixed part of said clamp. The hinge joint of said clamp en- I ables the loose part of the clamp to fold on cut in sill to fit down into a corresponding cut in said beam receives the bar of a T-bolt and over the said sill and beam, forcing a through a slot which bar being turned across said slot holds said sill and beam securely and rigidly together, said beam extends rearwardly and terminates in a head 8.

There is a notch 9 at the intersection or point of merger of the beam and head, the said notch being adapted for the reception of the rear edge of the seat 10 of a chair 11, which chair may be of the ordinary rocker type as shown. A short bar or sill fits into and across said beam opposite said notch. The hinged clamp comprises the parts 12 and 13 with the end of the T-bolt shown in the middle.

The head 8 has a'vertically disposed hearing 14 for the reception of a steering rod 15, the said steering rod having a guiding lever or handle 16 terminating in a slashed thimble fitted with a drop-collar by which the said lever or handle is securely fixed to the rod and by which the rod is controlled and readily rotated for guiding the chair or wheeled truck. The lower end of said steering rod merges into a head 17 terminating in a fork or V-shaped cut for rear wheel and through which bearings are cut for theshaft 18 on which a wheel 20 is mounted. Instead of" the guiding wheel described the swivel wheel :may be substituted when preferred.

Ti lie head and nut of this shaft or axle fits into countersinks by which the shaft and wheel are kept into place and both are removed readily by loosening the nut or cap until head and cap are clear of said countersinks.

The truck or wheeled device is shown as having two front wheels and one rear wheel and by manipulating the steering rod the wheel device or chair thereon may be guided and a rocking chair may be mounted thereon and secured without tools. when a chair of tween the rung of the chair and the axle of the truck and being held by the clampin means, and a sill secured to the beam an extending transversely thereof.

5. In a device of the character described, a truck having a headand beam with a recess at the junction of the head and beam, a sill, a metal strap having one end secured to the beam, the said strap extending around the sill, means carried by the beam for securing the opposite end of the strap', a steering rod merging into a head With a steering wheel fork, a steering Wheel, means for attaching the steering wheel, a bar and a sill, hangers, means'for connecting the hangers to the sill, a foot rest carried by the hangers, standards extending from the sill, said standards having recesses for receiving an axle of the truck, a metal strap on each standard, each of said metal straps having portions for embracing a rung of a chair, said straps extending under the axle of the truck, and means for securing an end of each strap to a rung, said means comprising a T-bolt, the bar of which engages the outer surface of the strap, said strap having a slot therein to receive said T-bolt, a hand guiding lever having a slotted thimble terminating in a drop collar attached to the steering rod, means for folding foot rest, two front wheels and axle, a rear wheel and means for removably securing the wheels.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN R. MOTES. Witnesses:

P. Z. SMITH, E. H. AYERS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

